120 Gallon Progress

[mr_alberta]

Originally Posted by NanoReef

why dont you need the halides for a long time?? the actinics do it fine for majority of the day???

I remember reading a thread on RC a while back about people who ran actinics for the majority of the day and saw no difference in growth patterns or colors, so I decided to try this myself. In my experience, there IS no real noticable difference so I left it like that. Save on heat, power and extends the bulb life a little bit.

[Skimmerking]

Actually Its a Green clown Goby you have there....

looks good thou, let me know when you guy s get in Potters angels i would like to get one .... and some more Cerith snail's



Mike

[NanoReef]

oops!!! thanks for the ID mike! i will give you a call if we get any potters angels in and we SOULD get some more ceriths with our next order! keep rested!

[NanoReef]

ok, my dad being his usual self (cheap) decided that he wanted to be able to use the 30g sump that i have later on if i ever decide to upgrade sumps.... being a Hagen tank i can see were he is coming from BUT i still need to use it... is there any way to get around siliconing glass in the sump???

[fishmanty]

I would silicone the glass into the sump on the sides of the glass, not between the glass and the sides. Silicone can come off with a little work with a razor blade... Plus, its only a 30gallon, and they don't cost alll to much to buy if you do happen to ruin it or if you scratch it while trying to remove the glass pieces from inside

[NanoReef]

thats the problem MY DAD IS CHEAP! he wants to keep this tank
i dont quite understand this though

I would silicone the glass into the sump on the sides of the glass, not between the glass and the sides

[fishmanty]

ok, at point 1, instead of siliconing the side of the baffle to the aquarium, put 2 globs of silicone on either side that can easily be cut off with a blade when it comes to removal. Its more of an idea that I know would work thats in the top of my head... its hard to put into words. point 2 shows what I mean by globs of silicone of the sides of each baffle.

Wish I could explain it better...

In short: Silicone is easy to cut off with a blade, so if you decide to silicone baffles into a tank to make it a sump, silicone it in a way that would be easy to get at with the edge of a blade, just to losen the baffles, then you could clean up the bits of silicone once the glass is removed.

[NanoReef]

ok i think i get it now.......but i now have ANOTHER problem....my skimmer takes up like 1/2 of the sump!!! now throw a mag 18 in there and i dont have much room left .....is there any way to "spacesave" and not have the baffles and still have an effective sump??

[Skimmerking]

call me ok i will explain to you little grasshopper.


mike
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[fishmanty]

You could put a mag beside the sump, and run it inline, but instead of drilling the tank, you could just put some flex tubing into the sump and run it to the intake of the pump, and just find a way to secure the tube so it doesn't fall out and suck air.

Im sure that guy with the post above me will have a good explaination, or better idea.